Mets wins, but Cards take two Sunny and clear Highs in the 70s. Lows in the 5Os. The Register Complete forecast/Pip 2A > Vol. 108 No. 15 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER...SINCE 1878 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1985 25 CENTS INSIDE Parties outline major campaign issues freeholder. And In the county and the state sure. But here's the way the county party "Kean is doing a good pr (public *uui. oust legislature, the balance of power is defi- chairman see the upcoming election strug- relations) job," Fiorino said. "Right now, SPORTS The Register nitely at stake. gle, six weeks before the big day. the voter isn't looking past that. The Ii'i that time of year again, when posters Most of us don't start thinking about The key race is for governor. The latest question is will he?" start cropping up, billboards blare names at candidates until a week or two before the polls show incumbent Republican Gov. The challenge, Fiorino feels, will be for passenby, and people knock on doors to vote. But there are at least two county Thomas Kean holding a 49-polnt edge over Shapiro to focus on "gut" issues, like taxes, hand out pamphlets, handshakes, and kisses residents who think about the next election his opponent, Democrat Peter Shapiro. The insurance, and the environment. He pointed for the baby. the second after the last vote is counted. main question right now, however, is to Shapiro's proposing a 15 percent decrease Even as the summer sun fades, the "I'm ready," said Frederick C. Kneisler, whether Kean's coattails will carry down in the property tax rate, and to Kean's not autumn glow is heated up by politics. Labor county Republican chairman. "I've been through the state Legislature, county or having cleaned up any toxic waste sites. Day traditionally signals both the end of ready since last election day." municipal seats. summer and the two-month countdown "This race only looks quiet," agreed John "An awful lot will depend on Peter," toward Election Day, and this year is no Fiorino, county Democratic chairman. "It's But Fiorino thinks Kean's support is soft. Fiorino said. "The key will be if he can different. building. Just wait." And he said the "volatile" New Jersey voter make the voter really look at Kean's record This year, county residents will choose What will dominate Election Day, IMS? could swing to the Democrat, if Shapiro and think about the issues." their governor, state Assemblymen, and a Only the post-handicappers will know for enlightens enough people to the issues. See CAMPAIGN, Page 2A Authority <- mulls dump • in Atlantic NOW WHAT? — New York Yankees' manager Billy Martin has watched his J BY LIM II KHUSE team drop four games in a row and 4. •MM && The Register slide behind the Toronto Blue Jays by five games in the American League MONMOUTH BEACH - The Northeast > i Monmouth Regional Sewage Authority might East. Yesterday the Yankees fell to not pump millions of gallons of sewage into the the hapless Cleveland Indians, 9-5. Shrewsbury River after all, says an authority IB 1* |^ spokesman. 1 •/ j Clammers and local politicians were up in arms when it became known that there is a LOCAL possibility that secondary treated sewage — also known a> effluent — might be temporarily Suspected arson diverted from the Atlantic Ocean and pumped A Marlboro family is unharmed after a into the river at the rate of seven million suspected arson burglary early gallons a day. Sunday morning all but gutted their But Michael Lyons, the executive director of two-story Ingersoll Road home. the authority, said yesterday that diverting sewage into the river was not likely to happen 3A •BSjBhH 1^* . *, ft^BJ|BJ| f The temporary diversion is necessary so the IllllWill^ authority can repair its outfall pipe, which was broken during a 1977 hurricane. The 2,400 foot- WORLD ttMfe sfl long pipe was split at the 900-foot mark. Subsequent storms have further damaged the Power struggles THE REGISTER/CAROLINE E COUIQ pipe, until now some 90 percent of the effluent Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is escaping just M0 feet offshore, Lyons said revamps the Communist Party, The state Department of Environmental making way for younger members Protection has ordered repairs to the 14-year- and anticipated political stability A perfect September day old pipe, located just north of the Monmouth there. Beach Bath and Tennis Club, be completed by December, 1986. SA An unidentified woman takes in the sunshine and breeze time reading his newspaper. The weatherman says we'll during a walk through Oceanport's Old Wharf Park get more of the same today. But repairing the pipe means reconnecting yesterday while a man in the background spends some the old one to a newly reconstructed one, Lyons STATE said. To do that, the authority will have to AT&T layoffs temporarily divert the sewage, which cannot be pumped during the reconnection. New Jersey is one of three states to be hit the hardest by the 24,000 Authority engineers have come up with three natiowide layoffs planned by AT&T. ways for the reconnection to take place, Lyons said. The options are running a pipe under 4A Tower site a controversial issue Route 36, temporarily burying the effluent in aesthetic beauty. last night said they want water. the ocean; running a pipe over Route 36, like l» «MN FKCHCTTf "All of us have nothing but sympathy for Kathleen Sullivan of Kings Highway a bridge, or pumping the effluent into the LIFESTYLE The Register those who don't get water " nM Dick P«l «ai«t oho ">n<« km 1""1''""' h""" bM Shrewsbury RllU. M1DDLETOWN - Theres pressure Scudder, Browns Dock Road. "I want living without adequate water pressure for The reconnection would take 48 hours if work over water pressure in the Chapel Hill them to get water. It's disgraceful that nearly a year. is done around the clock, or for a week if the section of town. they don't get it. We just hope it won't be "There are times when we flush the work is done during normal business hours, he Residents at last night's Board of done by means of a tower that's going to toilet and the toilet doesn't flush. Then said. Adjustment meeting locked horns with degrade the surroundings." there are times when your taking a shower The new pipe should be ready for reconnec- officials from the Monmouth Consolidated Scudder said the company's proposed and the water stops. It's ridiculous. tion in September 1986. Water Co. over plans to construct a 154 site is adjacent to a large tract of Something has to be done," Sullivan said. Of those options, Lyons said the least likely foot-tall water tower to serve the Chapel undeveloped land, including a 255-acre George Balduzzi of Oldwick Court said was the diversion into the Shrewsbury River. Hill area. parcel which was recently purchased by he is concerned about the fire hazard that "There's no question about it, the other two The water company plans to build the the Monmouth Conservation Foundation poor water pressure poses. are the ones we'd prefer," Lyons said. "The tower on a hill off Monmouth Avenue for use as a county park. "I will grant that a tower could be other two are more expensive, but the trade because Chapel Hill homes and fire "To put up a tower like this in what we unsightly and decrease some property hydrants don't get enough water pressure, hope will become an oasis of green for values but I feel that my health and saftey off is far worse." according to Paul Burdan, vice president everyone's children is just a gross viol- are alot more important than staring out He said the clammers had blown the issue and general manager of Monmouth Con- ation of public policy," Scudder said. at a water tower," Balduzzi said. out of proportion by assuming the worst. James P. Scott, an engineer for Mon- solidated. Joan Cameron, a Middletown Real "We only wanted to see what the impact However, residents living near the Estate Appraiser, said constructing a mouth Consolidated, said the company surveyed six other sites for the proposed would be," Lyons said. "We just asked their proposed site are concerned that the tower of this size would only decrease the opinion." structure will adversely affect property value of surrounding homes. tower before deciding on the Monmouth values and detract from the area's Still, residents of the Chapel Hill section See TOWER, Page 7A See SEWAGE, Page 7A Frogtown fun Volunteers for homeless For the fiftieth year in a row Monmouth county residents display their ugliest, prettiest, loudest, and laziest pets in the area. 10A worry about the future homeless embark on a ride back to Red If STEPHAME 61UCKIUM Bank from St. Benedict Roman Catholic The Register Church, Holmdel The transporters, RED BANK — They come on foot from some of whom have spent the night at St. all comers of the borough and beyond. It Benedict, take them. INDEX seems they appear out of nowhere. The system works well, considering. By 6:30 everyone is ready; nobody is Considering the only soup kitchen in late the area is in Red Bank, and the only Maybe six come, maybe more. Some shelter in the county is in Holmdel, the BRIDGE 71 carry small overnight bags, some carry system serves its purpose. BUSINESS M nothing at all. Transporters warn, however, that the Then arrive the "transporters," volun- system is on the verge of a breakdown.